Console conversions, paired down: Shooting Gallery & Quartet | Segaiden #042
739Sega draws once again upon its arcade work for this episode's set of releases, though they delve much further back into the past for one than the other. Shooting Gallery uses an electromechanical target gallery cabinet from the 1960s as its jumping-off point. Between that primal legacy and the addition of lots of other stuff to the mix, no one could ever accuse it of being a mere ripoff of a certain iconic Nintendo light gun shooter.
As for Quartet, it looks to much more recent coin-op history—a 1986 game by the same name. Unfortunately, the Master System's limitations forced the company's designers to pare down the design to a mere pair of players, falsifying the title. To make up for the compromise, they also removed more than 90% of the original arcade game's stages as well. Sounds terrible, right? Well, Quartet on Master System isn't actually as bad as all that, undergoing a similar arcade-to-home reinvention as Capcom's Section Z. It's just too bad about the reversed button setup.
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Most Master System footage captured from U.S. carts running through an adapter on Sega Mark III hardware with FM Sound Unit and RGB bypass modification by iFixRetro. Most arcade and Master System Light Phaser footage captured from MiSTer, with thanks to MiSTerAddOns. Video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister.